Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Verizon and Motorola Upgrade CDMS 1X Sites to EV-DO Rev. A

Verizon Wireless and Motorola, Inc. have extended their supply agreement to include upgrades to existing 1x Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision 0 sites and incremental upgrades to CDMA 1xRTT sites to 1x EV-DO Revision A. CDMA 1x EV- DO Rev. A offers fast downlink speeds and enhances the uplink data speeds for wireless broadband data users, providing new quality of service features needed to support simultaneous video, voice and data applications.

CDMA 1xRTT and 1x EV-DO technology are widely use in many regions of the world including North America, Japan, Korea, China and many countries in Southeast Asia, serving more than 275 million subscribers. The technology offers an evolution path that maintains backward and forward compatibility with earlier versions of CDMA technology while providing a future upgrade path to even faster broadband data rates.

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